May 3, 2018

Thoughts Along the Road - 17

Right Action Makes Us Deserve Real Wisdom

Carlos Cardoso Aveline

* The acceptance of a void
psychological space liberates the soul. “Emptiness” is blessed. The pure
intelligence of no-thing contains the
manifested universe: all numbers are present in the zero, and every sound will
be found in silence.

* Perhaps it is because souls have no physical weight,
that the path to heaven is made of Void Space. By “having nothing”, id est., by honestly acknowledging the
fact that we ultimately “possess” nothing, we can get to be consciously one
with the Cosmos and its Law.

* Eternity is here and now.

* Where does the here-and-now flow? It exists in
eternity. We live in infinite time. However, it is not correct to leave for
tomorrow what we can do today.

* Each moment must be complete in itself. Balance and
equilibrium are necessary in everything.

* One must not leave for others to do that which one
can do by oneself. Love includes
severity, friendship needs frankness, and dialogue is about listening as much
as about talking - perhaps even more.

* A sense of peace comes from simplicity of heart. An
open mind results from perceiving life’s unity. A strong intellect needs purity
of emotions, and true blessings can be received by those whose souls are like
the soul of a child.

* There is an invisible equilibrium between the earth
and the sky. The more one acquires, the more one must give up or renounce.
There is no such thing as obtaining something - especially on the spiritual
plane - without leaving aside something symmetrically opposed to that.

* Confidence in the future must be associated with a
respect for the past and an ability to learn from it.

* A courageous dialogue prevents war. The most diverse
nations, cultures and systems of thought will learn from each other during a
long-standing debate. Contrast is culturally and spiritually enriching. The
best remedies to ignorance and hypocrisy are an open mind, frankness and
tolerance regarding the paradoxes and conflicts between different views.

* The quality of detachment or independence from
routine and circumstances allows the pilgrim to know better than obeying to mere
outward forms of mechanistic discipline.

* While a daily effort is necessary to expand one’s identity
with the law of the universe, it must be a creative and living effort, not a
frozen repetition of blind actions.

* Our daily practice will become a natural process if we
have a clear sense of duty towards mankind, and to Those who work for its
deliverance from unnecessary pain.

* Peace of mind expands little by little as a result
of continuous right intention, correct action, and detachment regarding
circumstances.

* One must remember that a noble project will have to
challenge and will be challenged by increasingly large circles of ignorance or
negative karma. The blessing is mainly internal.

* The evolutionary purpose of facing renewed challenges
is to attain higher levels of understanding. While obstacles are temporary, the
lessons learned endure.

* Every Life is a combination of different cycles, and
human beings exist in many interlaced lines of karma and of time, often
contrasting with one another.

* There is a chain
of interdependent causes, a virtuous
circle that leads students to a perception of universal truth. Such Nidanas of spiritual path can be
described in various ways, the following being one of them: “1) The right point
of view deepens the effectiveness of attention; 2) The right kind of attention
produces understanding; 3) The right understanding leads one to freedom from blind
attachment or rejection; 4) Freedom from blind attachment or rejection expands
one’s affinity with wisdom; and 5) The affinity with wisdom provides the
pilgrim with a point of view regarding life that improves and expands all the
time.”

* The student of esoteric philosophy learns how to
plan and develop actions that have harmonious effects in the higher dimensions
of space and time.

* Planning is part of life, and a higher planning
results from a wider knowledge of time and space.

* There is a Plan of Evolution. The Universe does not
move by chance. One’sactions and point of view must transcend the blind routines of superficial
space and short-term time.

* While esoteric philosophy uses words, it cannot be
grasped or transmitted at their level only. In theosophy, concepts and phrases
are the outer vehicles for true understanding.

* Words are the messengers of truth, unless they are
its jailers. Ideas and sentences can point to facts; they can’t replace them.
Utter sincerity is needed in actual communication. It is by being one with the
object of understanding that we can learn about it.

* The Yoga of Patanjali teaches that one’s mind and
soul take the form of whatever they focus or concentrate upon. A narrow mind is
that which gravitates around narrow subjects. A wise mind is so because it is
focused in universal realities and law. As a result, the calm study of
classical theosophical books has powerful practical effects in one’s life. Its
revolutionary consequences are not necessarily visible in the short term.

* There are challenging aspects in studying the
theosophy of cosmos and the long-term evolution of our mankind. The very
substance of one’s mind must gradually change during study. Some universal
ideas can only be grasped by a mind that is simultaneously broad and finely
tuned.

* The ethical tenets of theosophy liberate a student
from illusory points of view and allow him to fully understand esoteric
philosophy. As the pilgrim studies, his view of the world broadens little by
little; his life gets simpler, and he begins to learn the true alphabet of
mystical perception.

* Creativeness in theosophy implies a
degree of indifference regarding all things material, and determination to open
a path where there is no visible path yet. Creative action is not an obvious
process to see. It means accepting routine as long as it is harmless to the
process of life-renewal. A creative individual is unconditionally patient.
Having a deep relationship with Time, he changes those circumstances which must
be changed. He does so when a real improvement is possible. Small initiatives,
in the right direction, often become major transformations.

* Duration has its own cornerstones. A student who knows where he is going is able to
provoke sudden change, provided that 1) the karma of a situation demands it, 2)
the timing is appropriate, and 3) the change will lead to an enduring
improvement of life.

* It does not make a great difference how much
“knowledge” one thinks one has. The meaning of knowing is in what we do with
whatever knowledge we may have.

* Spiritual awareness is non-verbal. It can only be
obtained by those who deserve it, and as long as they do so. Others are limited
to the wording of spirituality, and often to wrong and distorted wording.

* Right action makes us deserve real wisdom. As we use
our knowledge in the proper way, out of right intention, it expands.

* Reading is not a merely physical, formal or
“logical” event. It is potentially a septenary process; something that unfolds
simultaneously on seven levels of consciousness. Through reading texts written
by great sages, one can get in tune, as much as one’s soul is entitled to, with
the vibrational patterns of Universal Knowledge.

* The tuning in with the inner aspect of texts which
convey spiritual perception often occurs during the silence between one idea
and the next. In such a silence, the understanding brings about unity between
the observer and the truth being observed. Yet there is another silence which
takes place all the time, above the logical succession of the reading. This
higher and uninterrupted level of silence can also be part of one’s conscious
experience.

* A countdown is ticking. As announced by Helena
Blavatsky in the 19th century, humanity is fast developing new mental
abilities. However, consciousness of the process is still scarce. The amount of
spontaneous telepathy among people expands. The conscious use of the power of
thought quickly spreads. Lower kinds of intuition emerge. Citizens are getting
more and more sensitive to the astral world, and their worldview is still
materialistic and selfish, if not increasingly so. This might be a recipe for
disaster, unless Ethics emerges as a healing factor and the souls realize that
people must peacefully sow whatever they wish to harvest later. In this, the
daily practice of each citizen makes the difference.

* There is a higher form of pleasure in studying the
book “The Secret Doctrine” and understanding little by little the way the
Universe works, and the manner Life unfolds in one’s soul and the soul of
everything. Something in us starts to die, and something starts to live. An
awareness is born of our essential immortality, as we understand that we
partake of the essence of every star and of limitless cosmic Space.

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The above article was published as an
independent text on 3 May 2018.An initial version of it, with no indication as to the name of the author, is
included in the December 2015 edition of “The Aquarian Theosophist”.